Adaptive Grazing and Land Use Coupling in Arid Pastoral China: Insights from Sunan County

Driven by climate change and stringent ecological conservation policies, arid and semi-arid pastoral areas face acute grassland degradation and forage–livestock imbalances. In Sunan County (Gansu Province, China), herders have increasingly turned to off-site grazing—leasing crop fields in adjacent o...

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Published in:	Land
Main Authors:	Bo Lan, Yue Zhang, Zhaofan Wu, Haifei Wang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2025-07-01
Subjects:	arid pastoral regions off-site grazing land use change social–ecological coupling coordination model livelihood adaptation
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/7/1451